December 27, 2025 - Once you go automatic, target generation goes crazy.” · During the first weeks of the war, Lavender marked thirty-seven thousand Palestinians with risk scores indicating probable association with an armed faction.

April 17, 2024 - Lavender processes information collected from the more than 2.3 million residents of the Gaza Strip, confirming the dense network of digital surveillance to which Gazans are subjected. A score is created for each individual ranging from 1 to 100, which estimates the probability that they are ...

April 20, 2026 - ‘Lavender’: The AI machine ... WhatsApp activity) to guess whether someone is a militant. Produces a ranked “kill list” of tens of thousands of Gazans....

April 4, 2024 - Lavender was developed by the Israel Defense Forces’ elite intelligence division, Unit 8200, which is comparable to the US’s National Security Agency or GCHQ in the UK. Several of the sources described how, for certain categories of targets, the IDF applied pre-authorised allowances for the estimated number of civilians who could be killed before a strike was authorised.

April 4, 2024 - Estimates from inside Gaza, corroborated by outside peer-reviewed medical analyses from Johns Hopkins and using independent satellite imagery, have tallied the Palestinian death toll at surpassing 30,000 lives, with Israeli intelligence sources ...

August 1, 2024 - Six sources from within the military ... in every ten people are selected in “error.” At Lavender’s peak it identified 37,000 people in Gaza for potential assassination....

April 4, 2024 - It reportedly used machine learning to identify characteristics of militants and assigned people a score of 1-100, according to military sources, based on factors including association with suspected militants and frequently changing their phone.

2 weeks ago - ↑ "Military-style funeral held for Australian 'Hezbollah fighter' killed by Israeli air strike in Lebanon". ABC News. 28 December 2023. Retrieved 10 August 2024. ↑ "Israel Defence Forces' response to claims about use of 'Lavender' AI database in Gaza". The Guardian.

November 6, 2025 - An investigative report by +972 Magazine and Local Call (Abraham 2024) revealed that the Lavender algorithm assigns each person a probabilistic score indicating the likelihood that they are members of an armed group (Mhajne 2025).

April 26, 2024 - Lavender assigns a numerical score, from 1 to 100, to every man in Gaza, based mainly on cellphone and social media data, and automatically adds those with high scores to its kill list of suspected militants.

February 4, 2026 - In an unprecedented move, according to two of the sources, the army also decided during the first weeks of the war that, for every junior Hamas operative that Lavender marked, it was permissible to kill up to 15 or 20 civilians; in the past, ...

May 29, 2026 - Lavender assigns each Gaza resident a score from 1 to 100 indicating the algorithmic probability of their affiliation with Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The algorithm assigns each person a probabilistic score indicating the likelihood ...

TWN | THIRD WORLD RESURGENCE | ARCHIVE THIRD WORLD RESURGENCE · A brief history of kill lists from Langley to Lavender

April 4, 2024 - The dataset also included some Palestinian civil defense workers. Then Lavender was used to assign a score of one to 100 for almost everyone in Gaza, based on how many characteristics they matched.

April 4, 2024 - Officers said the Israeli military’s reliance on the AI tool contributed to the high rate of civilian casualties in Gaza.

April 18, 2024 - Lavender assigns a numerical score, from one to a hundred, to every man in Gaza, based mainly on cellphone and social media data, and automatically adds those with high scores to its kill list of suspected militants.

May 16, 2024 - The Israeli army has developed an artificial intelligence-based system called “Lavender” that automates this process by sifting enormous amounts of surveillance data and identifying possible Hamas or Islamic Jihad (PIJ) fighters based on patterns in that data.

July 25, 2024 - According to the magazine, "Lavender" relied on sprawling surveillance networks and assigned a 1-100 score to every Gazan based on the likelihood the person was a Hamas militant. This is used by another software program called "Where's Daddy?" ...